Evening Star Newspaper, September 21, 1889, Page 6

CITY AND_ DISTRICT. GF Advertising is profitable only when prop- erly done,—that is, in the medium sure to reach the largest number of those whose attention is sought. Money otherwise expended for that purpose is wasted. To expend it wisely, ad- vertise in Tar Stan. It not only claims the largest circulation, but gives the figures, and Bwears to them! A TECHNICAL LEAGUE. A Convention of German-Americans to be Held in This City. PROGRAM OF AN INTERESTING MEETING TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK—THE WASHINGTON BRANCH OF THE SOCIETI—COMMITTEES TO ARRANGE FOR THE CONVENTION. Members of the Technicer verein or Tech- nical society, of this city, are busily engaged in making preparations for the reception and accommodation of their brethren who will be here by Wednesday next to take part in the business and pleasure which attends the annual conver of the Deutsch-Amerikanischer Techniker Verbund, or to Anglicize it, the Ger- man-American Technical league. Just why @ German society should be formed for scien- tific purposes is to many people a problem; the fact is that the organization is German for social reasons. The German may be pretty thoroughly Americanized, but he clings lov- ingly to the tongue of the fatherland; he re- foices in the companionship of old schoolmates, and when such reunions come no convivial op- portunity is allowed to pass by unused. The Meetings of these local societies and the an- al reunion in convention give the social organization ample opportunity for prominence and these will be marked at the gathering next week. Up to ten jyears ago there was no legalized association, but in 1879 a start was made in the city of New York and the result was the organization of A TECHNICAL SOCIETY. Philadelphia soon followed the example and then Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Washing- ton and Pittsburg went and did likewise. At Present the league has 51¥ members, 188 being mechanical engineers, 126 civil engineers, 91 architects and the remainder chemists, manu- facturers, artists, physicians, &c. The meet- ings of the several societies are held twice in each month; one of these is devoted to business the other to lectures, discussions and refresh- ments. During the proper season there are extra meetings—excursions to points of techni- cal interest and picnics, THE ANNUAL CONVENTION. The league—which combined these scattered technical societies—was placed on an oilicial basis alittle more than five yearsago, and since then has had five annual conventions at, spectively, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinnati New York and Pittsburg. The one to be held here will commence next Wednesday, and will continue in session until and including Satur- day. About 100 delegates, the majority of them accompanied by their wives and members of their families, are expected to be present, and most of the men are looking forward vaguely to possible greetings from those whom they knew as boys, and of whom they had heard nothing for many years, Old-time German eonviviality will prevail. THE PROGRAM. All sessions of the league and the reception and the banquet will be held in Edel’s hall, on E street between 6th and 7th streets. On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock there will be a reception. At 10 o clock on Thursday morning the deiegates will be received by Charles Ki kel, president of the Technical society of this city. The convention will be officially opened by A. C. Hettich, president of the league, after which the annual reports of the several socie- ties and committies will be made. The session will close in time to allow all the delegates to beat the White House by 1 o’clock, where Presi- dent Harrison has promised to shake hands with them. The afternoon is to be devoted to @ tour of the city. but the evening, from 8 O'clock, is set aside for the banquet; this will be an elaborate affair, ladies being invited. The Chicago society will preside over the feast. Friday’s proceedings will commence at 10 a. %m. with the second day's session of the league. At 2 o'clock the steamer Corcoran will take the entire crowd to Mount Vernon, The third und last day's session of the con- Yention will open ou Saiurday at 10 a.m. Officers will be elected and a decision will be arrived at as to the next piace of anecting. At iy the 2o'clock the league will visit in a bo avy yard. the Capitol, the site of the Con- — library and other places of interest, ‘he concluding exercies, which will be largely | Social in their nature, will start off at 8 p.m. and will continue for some time. The newly- elected president of the league will be in the ebair on this occasion. PAPERS TO BE READ. At the business sessions the following papers will be read: “On the proposed Pike's Peak xeilroad,” William Hildenbrand, New York; “On transverse strength,” H. W. Fabian, New York; “Diving and diving apparatus,” H. H. Stupakoff, Pitisburg: “The water supply and @raimage of Chicago” and “Chicago and the roposed world’s fair,” H. A. Stoltenberg, hicago. It will be optional with delegates to deliver their addresses or to participate in debate in either German or English, but the majority of those present, if not all, will undoubtedly use German. THE WASHINGTON SOCIETY. ‘The officers of the Washington technical so- THE EXPOSITION OF 1892. Arranging for the Mecting of the Na- tional Board of Promotion. WASHINGTON THE CHOICE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE — CHEERING STATEMENTS MADE BY SECRETARY ANDERSON TO 4 MEETING OF THE LOCAL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD LAST EVENING. Last evening the local merabers of the na-~ tional board af seeseotli of the Three Ameri- cas exposition of 1892 held s meeting at the headquarters in Willard’s hotel, There was a good attendance of representative citizens. The three members of the bourd of District Commissioners were present, and also Thomas E. Waggaman, ex-Commissioner Webb, E. G. Davis, Postmaster Ross, B, H. Warner, Dr. J. M. Toner, John Joy Edson, E. Kurtz Johnson, J. H. Magruder, Lawrence Gardner, Archibald Greenlees, M. L Weller, E. Morrison, Hallet Kilbourn, Allison Naylor, Robert Christy, George E. Lemon, W. B. Moses, James T, Worm- ee others. Commissioner Douglass pre- si ‘THE MEETING OF THE BOARD. The secretary, Mr. A. D. Anderson, stated that the object of the meeting was to discuss the arrangements for the proposed meeting in this city on the 23d of October of the national board of promotion, Mr. Anderson said that it was not the intention to make the exposition a local affair, and for this reason the members of the board were not confined to citizens of this city. He said that fifty-one governors of states had accepted positions on the board and eighty-one boards of trade had appointed rep- resentatives. It was proposed now to call these members together and consult upon a plan for presentation to Congress atita next session. This would give a national character to the movement in favor of the selection of this city. Mr. Anderson said that work in the interests of this city was begun about three years ago, IN FAVOR OF THIS CITY. Recently, however, other cities had come into the field, but he believed that nearly the entire country was in favor of holding the ex- position in this city, Washington, he said, is the second choice of those whose local interests caused them to give their preference to New York, Chicago, or St. Louis. New York, how- ever, he said, had as yet done but little toward advancing its own interests, and he did not consider that city really in the field, St. Louis and Chicago were putting forth great efforts, but each of these cities would rather have the exposition held in Washington than. in the rival place, He did not think that these places would combine either against New York or Washington. He thought that going before Congress with a request from a body consti- tuted as the national board of promotion is would place the movement in favor of this city on a national basis and give ita standing be- fore Congress that the other candidates would not have. “ & BUILDING FOR THE MEETING. Mr. Thomas £. Waggaman tendered the use of the building known as the New York avenue skating rink as a meeting place for the national board and it was accepted. A committee, con- sisting of M. M. Parker, Thos. E. Waggaman and B. H. Warner, was appointed to raise $5,000 to meet the expensesof the board dui the winter, and A. D. Anderson, Hallet Kil- bourn and George C. Gorham were appointed a committee to draw up a bill for presentation to Congress with instruction to have the matter prepared before the meeting of the national board in October, In further discussion of the subject reference was made to the large sums of money that would be expended in this city in the event the exposition is held here. These advantages Mr. Anderson said he believed were appreci- ated. Within six months after the opening of the exposition he thought that not less 2 100,000,000 would be put in circulation, THE POPULAR CHOICE. Mr. Anderson spoke of the popular votes taken by the New York Independent, the Man- ufacturer Record and Public Opinion, all of which showed that Washington was the favored place with the people. After further informal discussion the meet- ing adjourned until the early part of Uctober, when the arrangements for the sessions of the national board and the banquet will be com- pleted, ——.__ Real Estate Matters, The following real estate transactions have been closed during the past week or two by J. B. Wimer, real estate broker: Lots 91 and 92, corner Wyoming and Connecticut avenue extended, Washington Heights, to Col. Royal T. Frank, U.S.A., commandant Fort Monroe, Va., for $18,225, for F. Dauzenbaker. Col. Frank has in contemplation the erection of a fine residence on one of these lots as soon ag practicable, Eight lots in Eckington for George Trues- dell to a number of tie youag men in the Bos- ton dry goods store, represented by Mr. A. M. Lothrop, for $13,000. Also for F. H. Saunders lot7 in square 23, Eckington, to same for $2.2 Mr. Wimer has also sold through M. M. Parker for John H. Lane to Hon. James T. Metealf a house just completed on the corner of Rhode Island ‘avenue, Linden, Boundary, 3 ets for $5,300. Also house 450°N street, through B. F. Gilbert & Co. to George W. Milford. for $2,400, and five acreson the Rock Creek Ford road for E. M. Noble to Mrs. Eliza D. Barton for $1.589,25. Harris and A. D. Prince have bought for 20,000 of Mury A. Seswford et al. part 13, square 431, excepting one-sixteenth interest, 13 by 50 feet on 7th street between D and E streets northwest. The first deed is from the heirs of John Sessford, conveying fif- ciety are as follows: Ch. Kinkel, president; E. J. Scmmer, vice president; C. A. Didden, treas- urer; P. Bausch, corresponding secretary; Prof. F. k. Fava, recording secretary. ‘The local committees on the convention are: Reception—Ch. Kinkel, P. Bausch, C. A. Did- den, E. F. Droop, F. K. Fava, Dr. G. Marx, Dr. P. Seifrig, J. L. smithmeyer, E. J. Sommer. Finance—J. Jose, H. von Bayer, H. H. Berg- mann, E. F. Droop, Th. Felter, Ch. Heuric! E. E. Miller, G. N. Saegmueller, Dr. P. Seifri x Legg yng ont A. Gonner, J. ‘ose, Dr. +. Mauss, O. New: J. EL Rettig, E. Schmitt. ry Decorations—G. R. Pohl, E. E. Court, R. von Ezdort, L. F. Graether, J. Rakemann, W. Buess. Press—E. J. Sommer, P. Bausch,Wm. Burch- C. A. Didden, F. R. Fava. e local society has a membership of seven- ty-five; its delegate to the conveution is E. J. Sommer. The headquarters of the Washington branch of the league, at 1313 E street northwest, will be open day and night during the convention. meee The Only Indian Grand Army Post. The only Indian G. A. R. post in the country & the Joseph Ledergerber post, No. 261, de- Partment of Wisconsin, It was organized not Jong ago at Keshena, Wis., on the Menomonee feservation. Yesterday Col. Pred T. Lederger- ber of St. Louis called at the Interior depart- quent and presented to Secretary Noble, in be- half of the post, two photographs of the mem- * bers of the post taken at the last national en- pment at Milwaukee. One of the photo- pis was intended for the President, who is absent from the city. The presentation is Wade in recoguition of the action of the de- teen-sixteenths, and the remaining interest is conveyed in another deed, ————— He Was Punished Enough. Yesterday afternoon in the Police Court Judge Miller heard the evidence in the case of Robert Carroll, the young colored man who was ar- rested by Policeman Markwood for guuning on the Patterson estate, in the county. The officer told the court the circumstances connected with the arrest and how Carroll was injured by witness’ horse going over him while he (Car- roll) was attempting to escape. Judge Miller thought that Carroll has been puuished sufli- ciently for such a violation of the iaw and re- him on his own recognizance, = Golden Cross Notes. At the last meeting of Capital com- mandery, No, 323, United Order of the Golden Cross, applications for membership were made y Mrs. Susanah Kelsey and Mrs, Edith Murray, The commandery has purchased a fine cabinet organ. ‘The second anniversary of the commandery will be celebrated by a public cutertainment to be held in Washington hall October 25. Ata meeting of Halcyon commandery last evening application for membership was made by Mr. C. A. Boynton and addresses were made by Geo, H. Cline, RD. Meston, A. H. Stamp, Parks and othe! ——_— A Steam Engineer Seriously Injured. Benjamin Binnix, the engineer at F. A. Belt’s planing mill, corner of Ohio avenue and 13th and C streets, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon, While shifting a belt he slipped and fell and his right cheek was cut open and his wrist badly cut, Had it not been for his partment in retaining Thomas Jennings as Agent of the Menomonee reservation. seseeeesect Dalpatanle Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: A. F. Moran to J. H. W. Schmidt, sub, 15, 8q. 440; $3,600. B. F. Leighton et ul. to Hannah Ferry, lot 9, bik. 24, Brookland; 3300. John idout, trustee, to Geneveive E. Walker, lot 2, 8q. 918, lots 6 to 9, sq. 1014, and 5 to 10, sq. 1087; €1,200. Harry W. Dowling to J. G. Reisinger, 52 and 51, sq. ;_#—. Same to W. M. owell, pt. do.; $2,000. 'D. B. Groff to Joseph - sub. 96, sq. 777; $3,200. FP. W. Carter to G. W. Latehford, sub. 72,4q. S97; €— Anna V. Thowpkins to Mary G.’ Donohue, lot 18, bik 12, Meri Hill; 2,450. C. M. Robinson to sq. 856, 23,040, Poor Tom's Last x te two RK $3,994.28. Walter H. Pelle: sub, W.N. De gE 33, 916; |. Ne wale to John Irvin et al, trustecs, subs 5 to 7. sq. 1021; $2,800, H. Georgianna Shannon to Johu Madigan, sub 31 of lot 6, Chi- chester; 2325. F. H. Saunders toA. M. Lo- lot 13, blk. 5, Eckington; 2. He Was Not the Author. ‘To the Kastor of Tux Evgxtxe Stan: Ip a recent issue of Tax Star an artidle on congressional life, said to have been written by me @ Wilekesbarre, Pa, periodical was qed, I desire to say that i am not the au- of the article, nor are the therem expressed fellow workmen who came to the rescue he would have been more seriously injured, His wounds were dressed at the emergency hospital and he was sent to his home. ————_— The Case of Mrs. Rowland. | Mra. Aunie Rowland. charged with the em- bezzlement of funds while in the employ of Dr. Hammond at bis sanitarium, and who was ar- rested some time ago at Minneapolis at the in- stance of Detective Mahon, was brought here Thursday night by Marshal Campbell of Min- nesota, who gave her in charge of Marshal Kans’ | She is a well-formed woman about ii -ars old, with « pleasant countenance, aud was attired in black. She talked freely to the otticers in the marshal’s office and expressed confidence that she would establish her inno- Detective Mahon returned the warrant in the Police Court in the afternoon. The warrant ¢! es Mrs. Kowlaud with embezzling $60 of Dr. é a money. As Dr. Hammond is not city at present the hearin; not be oceeded with, Mr. ©. C. al who - for Mrs. Rowland. offered W. ‘altham as surety for her a e on Tues- day vext, The court fixed the bail ‘at $1,000, which was given and she was released. yester- day in cutting up the newly laid concrete on the cast side of 1th street, just above F street, to the extent of about six by three feet, and about half a thousand ae why they were mutilating smooth reason was to be found when the ten-ton i 2 3 3 i Hie EBE ie ile 5 F { i THE HARBAUGH ROBBERY. Young Ogle (the Grandson) Committed and Brown Released. Francis H. Ogle and Leonard ©. Brown, the young men arrested Thursday on a charge of robbing Edward L, Harbaugh, Ogle's grand- father, as published in Tae Star that day, were arraigned in the Police Court yesterday after- noon charged with the grand larceny of $100. Ogie plead guilty to the charge and was com- mitted to await the action of the grand jury. Mr, John Oliver entered a plea of not guilty for Brown. Detective Horne testified to the arrest and confession of Ogle, who told witness that Brown told him to take the money, but that Brown never went to the house with him. Brown, the witness said, also denied that he ever went to the house. Detective Mahon gave similar testimony and the case against Brown ‘was dismissed. ——_+___ His Mental Condition. Paymers Green, colored, was defendant in an assault case heard in the Police Court yester- day afternoon in which Howard Jackson ap- peared as prosecuting witness, Green, who has heretofore been in the insane asylum, still shows evidences of aberration. The case was continued until an examination as to his men- tal condition can be made, ——_—_— Injured in a Runaway Accident. Contractor Brown of Mount Pleasant was driving into the city yesterday ina nice new buggy, when a bicycle frightened his horse and the animal ran away. Just above Boundary, almost precisely at the place where Prof. Paul was killed about a year and u half ago, the vehicle was upset and Mr. Brown was thrown headlong. He was rendered unconscious by | the shock and was taken into No. 2424 Craven | terrace, where hurriedly summoned medical | assistance was rendered. Mr. Brown's Fight | ankle is severely injured.his head is cutand his body is braised in a number of places. He was { Soon afterward removed to his home on Park street, ——_-___ THE COURTS. Prozate Count—Judge Bradley. Yesterday—Estate of Alfred Noss Holes; letters of administration to Ada B. Holes; bond, $490, Estate of Conrad Kaufman; letters of adminis- | tration to George 8. Kaufman; bond, $25,000. | Estate of Katie H. Olmstead; citation returned; will admitted to probate and record; letters testamentary to John F. Olmstead; ‘special bond, $500.” Estate of Henry Hoderman; order of publication issued, returnable October 11, 1889, Estate of Susanna R. Green; petition of James M. Green; will admitted to probate and record; letters testamentary to James M. Gre: bond, $15,000. Estate of Richard Moore; will fully proven. Estate of Ann Maria Orme; let- ters of administration to James W. Orme; bond. $60,000, Estate of Robert Lewis Harris; will admitted to probate and record; letters testa- mentary to Geo. H. B, White, Caroline McKean and Lyle J. Baird, executors; bond, $1,500, Estate of James Lawrence Warwick; will filed, petition of Clara Virginia Warwick for probate of will, In re guardianship of Edward Rollins Prescott; John A. Prescott appointed guardian; bond, $2,000. Estate of Timothy Sands; notifi- cation of deposit. Accounts were passed in the following estates: Elizabeth Mallikin, first and | final accounts of executors; Lavinia Black, do.; Richard R. Thornton, do. eee ANACOSTIA. Tar Pvstic Scnoois.—Prof. H. 8. Petty has returned from his vacation and is busy prepar- ing for the opening of the public schools. Mon- day. All new pupils will be received by him at the school building at 9 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing and assigned to their respective depart- ments. Several of the lower grades will be conducted, a3 heretofore, on the half-day plan. Classes in manual training and cookery from the seventh and eighth grades will be organ- ized as soon as possible, but considerable diffi- culty is being experienced in finding suitable accommodations for the cookery. Personat.—Mr. and Mrs, Rolley Pursell re- turned yesterday from a short visit to West- moreland county, Va.-—Mr, J. C, McGirr re- turned last night from a visit in New York. — The family of Mr. Charles Hawkins, living near the Marlboro’ pike, reported in a very serious condition with malarial fever, are ail slowly improving.—Mr. Brooke Hunter and Sheriff N. C. Darnall of Bladensburg were the guests of friends here yesterday and Mr. Darnall was last night initiated into Mineola tribe of Red Men, which now numbers over 120 braves, Nores.—Mr, Thomas 0. White, farmer, aged fifty-seven, and John W. Clubb, farm laborer, aged twenty-one, both white, were arrested yesterday by Officer Marr for disorderly con- duct.—Oflicer Prather, who has been on the sick list several weeks, is on duty again,— The tournament to be held at Silver Hill for the benefit of St. Barnabas’ Episcopal church Wednesday next promises to be oue of the best of the season in Prince George's county. A queen and three maids will be crowned, Rechts A NEGLECTED VIRTUE, The Ability To Write Legibly and Well— To Make Good “Copy.” From the Examine It was Dogberry’s masterpiece of wisdom when he declared: 0 be a weill-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to read and write comes by nature.” It seems to be true of writ- ing, certainly, that if it come not by nature it comes not at all. By writing we mean not the art of composition, but the semi-mechanical act of putting words on paper in a legible hand and in proper form. How rare a gift this is no one knows so wel as an editor. A folded (not rolled) manuscript. written in good black ink, on but one side of the sheet, in lines not too far apart, with words well separated and fairly wel! formed, accu- rately spelled, punctuated, capitalized and paragraphed. so that when read and accepted there is nothing to do but to give it to the rinter with strict injunctions to “follow copy"— ow rare a windfall s8 that in any newspaper office. Instead of this ideai manuscript, what scrawls in pencil or pale ink greet the editor's eyes; how they cover both sides of the sheet nd meander along the margin; how the words are misspelled, abbreviated, run together; with what scorn does the writer disregard such trifles as capitalization, punctuation and para- graphing. Such a manuscript, doubtless, has its value as a means of grace to the editor. who, of course, is always looking for opportunities to let patience have her perfect work, but other value it is likely to have none, save to the Junk man, who buys the contents of the editorial waste basket at a cent a pound. We have hinted at the ete destination of manuscripts of this kind. Most of them find their way to this limbo very promptly, but the trial of a journalist's lite is when he gets hold of such a manuscript thet i little too good to be declined, but not good enough to be printed until it has ‘been laboriously tinkered up line by line. This is the drudgery of the profession, from which there will be no esca) until the millennium, when everybody will make “good copy. ‘The typewriter has done something to alleviate the lot of editors and printers. Sut the machines are expensive and cannot iuerefore be generally used. Many writers for the press wonder “why that little thing of mine wasn’t printed. I'm sure it was quite as good as several other things published that week.” No doubt; per- haps it was better, only—the editor couldn’t read enough of it to decide whether it was good or bad, and, after wasting all the time he could well spare over it, tossed it into the ever-ready waste basket. Or perha) he found that, while he could read the words well enough, there were so many abbreviations and mistakes of one kind and another that it would take half an hour to put it into shape for printing, and the article was not worth so much labor, or he hadn't half an hour to spare for that purpose, and so—the waste basket. Of two articles offered an editor, of about equal availability,” that one will be chosen every time that is most legible and is best prepai for the press, y” serio handicapped at the wart, 3 good a seems to have across its first page in bold letters ‘written for publication,” w! on a bad manuscript an experienced journalist clearly discerns the legend “foreordained for the waste basket.” We have called the making of “good copy” a neglected virtue. There is a in that worthy of a second thought. jon of the rights and comforts of others is the mark of a geatleman or gentlewoman. Why should one writes a letter or an arti- cle Impose a fine on the ona to read it —a fine of time and lal is wholly ‘as well as ‘unjust? It of the rights of o1 that duct manifests. To write Novel. - of “Miss ‘Maat. New York: Tue American News Co. GIRALDI; or, Taz Curse or Love. By Ross Grorge Derixa. Givma sd Countes Mbrary, Ro. 38.) New York: D. Appleton & ASTARTE; or, Trvant Loves. ALFRED DEL- wav. ‘aranstated by fe B. ana SH Daves: New York: Belford, Clark & Co. A SOCIAL DIPLOMAT. Fiona ApsMs Dar- LING. New York: Fi ¥. Lovell & Co, 96 THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. Its Development by Chinese Gardeners— The Chrysanthemum in Fable. From the North China Herald. Tho chrysanthemum has many varieties. It has yellow, white, red, purple, or variously col- ored flowers, The native horticulturists have found it comparatively easy to modify its ap- pearance and color. There is an old statement that the Soochow gardeners take it when it is a foot above the ground and pluck off the termi- nalbad thetop, After a few days the one bud originates two. These again are decapi- tated and a similar result follows, so that when autumn arrives the number of flowers on one stalk is very great, and they grow into a sort of round hemisphere like a cart covering. It was the early discovery that modifications in the flowers could be produced in this way that led the Chinese to attach so much impor- tance to this flower. It was about A. D. 400 that it became a special garden favorite and was valued by the poets. Tan Yuen Ming of that time was very fond of it and a search specially in his poems has resulted in the fact t he classed it with the pine for endurance. The petals reraain in their place after winds and storms and it wes this feature in the flower which he admired. The Chinese represent yellow as the natural color and they add that white asters after a year or two are apt to change back to yellow. In some varieties the flowers are deciduous, and in others not so, A pale yellow changes to white after the plant as flowered with unusual luxuriance; and white, in the same way, when exhibiting a tendency to variation, becomes red. Such flowers wither ou the stem, When the petals are far apart they are apt to fall early and after the full period of blossoming they gradu- ally drop off. If wind and rain should come and shake them they all fall off together and cover the ground, Such miuute observation of & flower as this isan example of the pains taken by the Chinese in the study of nature. The Soochow gardeners mentioned mean of course the gardeners of the great plain of which Soo- chow is the capital, and Shanghai with Tai- tsang and Kiang-yin are particularly noticed as having a climate or soil, or local skill in hor- ticulture, which greatly favore the variability of the Chinese aster. From the statement made it is probable *that there is no part of China where there is more success in culti- vating the China aster or more variety in it than in the gardens of these cities. There are coarse and fine varieties. Some chrysnthe- mums grow to 10 feet in length, and some disks are as large asa saucer. ‘I'wo colors appear on the same flower. These are called coarse vari- eties, The finer include velvety sorts and those which are cylindrical in shape. or turn to the west, or indented like wolves’ teeth. Those which are most valued in China are flowers which begin with being small and grow larger, and petals which are close set, numerous and fresh in color. ‘The chrysanthemum flower is fabled by the Chinese to have the power of conferring im- mortality, To obtain the result it must be eaten with the fruit of the wutung by the be- lieving. In Szechuan there is in the Confucian temple of the capital of the province an image of the genius of the chrysanthemum. ‘The be- ing represented is said to be a girl who drank the wine of the chrysanthemum flower in the Han palace, and thus became immortal. Those students who pray to her are successful in the examinations, In a cave of the same city there is a painting drawn upon the wall of a woman holding a chrysanthemum in her hand, Be- fore Ler is represented @ monkey. She i called “The Lady of the Chrysanthemum,” and students who pray to her have remarkable dreams, The intimations conveyed in there dreams are, wonderful to relate, sure to come true, say the native accounts, The chrysan- themum sinense has probably for two cen- turies been well known in Europe. The florets, whether of the ray or the disk, are never blue, but they appear with al- most every other possible color. The books say that the Chinese must for long ages have been efully improving the plant, and that their great richness in development and in variety of properties has risen from spo- radic peculiarity and intermixtare with allied species unknown in Europe. This last effect would be caused by insects bringing with them in their visits to the flowers the pollen of neigh- boring planta, THE CHINA ASTER IN CHINESE ART. The remarkable variability of these plants is partly due to an excellent consitution, which allows them to be easily propagated by cut. tings, About half of the fower heads should be destroyed to increase the size and beaut; of those which remain. Not being delicate, some kinds will submit to their stems being pegged down near the surface of the ground, and the beauty of a garden plot is remarkable when the flowers of certain hardy varieties are in this way so restricted as to rise only a few inches from the ground. European gardeners obtain seeds from widely different localites aud aim by mixture to rival the handsomest varieties introduced from China, We must subtract the legendary clement generously and recognize a true love of natural beauty in the great attachment which the Chinese have for the peony, the plum flower and the China aster, which have been all favorites for four- teen hundred years or more. This is one of the main sources of the development of mod- eru Chinese’ painting, in which th flowers have bad as much attention as baskets of fruit among the painters of Holland. = oo —___ The Big Crops of Kansas, From the Kansas City Times, Everyone wio comes to Kansas City from Kunsas these days has his own particular stock of stories to tell about the wonderful crops in that state. Among the sunflower pilgrims who landed in the city on Saturday was Charley Barrett, the good-looking and talkative travel- ing passenger agent of the Missouri Pacitic. He had spent four or five days in southern Kansas and his mouth was going at the rate of 500 revolutions a minute about crops, when he was flagged by a Times man on Main street, “Wheat!” he exclaimed, ‘you never saw the like! The farmers down in southern Kansas had to rent the public roads to get room enough tostack the wheat. Wasn't room enough in the fields to hold the stacks. I saw one—" “How is the fruit crop?” ‘Fruit! You never saw the like! Apples as big as eannon balls growing in clusters as big as haystacks, I saw onc apple that——”" ‘Don't the trees break down2” “Trees! You never saw the like! The farm- ers planted sorghum inthe orchards and the stalks grew up like telegraph raen and sup- ported the limbs, I saw one st of sorghum that was 2 feet-——” “How is the broom-corn crop?” “Broom corn! You never saw the like! There hasu’t been a cloudy day in southern Kansas fora month. Can't cloud up. The broom cro; grew so high that it kept the clouds swept of the face of the sky us clean as a new floor, They will have to cut the corn down if it gets too dry. Some of the broom corustalks are so high that—” low is the corn crop?” You never saw the like! Down in the Neosho and Fall River and Arkansas bot- toms the corn is as high asa house. They use svep-ladders to gather roasting ears.” “Aren't step ladders pretty expensive?” “Expensive! Well, I should say so; but that isn’t the worst of it, The trouble is ‘that the children climb up into the cornstalks to hunt eagle's nests and sometimes fall out and kill themselves. Fourteen funerals in one county last week from that cause. I attended all *of them, that is why Iam so sad. And mind you, the corn is not more than half grown. A man at Arkansas City has invented a machine which he calls * solar corn harvester and child * It is inflated with gas like a balloon over the cori ‘WORLD’S CHAMPION WEESTLER. An Interview With George Steadman at the Grasmere Sports. ‘From the Pall Mall Gazette. There was great excitement among the gath- ering of wrestling enthusiasts at Grasmere this week when it became known that George Steadman had been drawn to meet George Lowden in the first round of the heavy weights. For years it has been felt that only one man was fit to measure strength against the cham- pion, and today the two men were to try con- clusions at the very commencement of the preceedings, Always up to time, George Steadman walked into the dressing tent half an hour before the great tussle of the day was timed to come off. It was in the dressing tent, writes a correspondent, that I found him, and had the following conversation: “Well, George,” I said, as the champion grasped my hand until I thought it was held in = iron vice. “in what kind of form are you morning?” Grand, sir, id. Last week I took a run up into Scotland, and Scottish air always does me good; and, besides the air, I benefited by bringing home with me eight first prizes as the result of my visit.” mm glad to hear that,” I said, ‘and I sup- ouare looking forward to taking away Re belt with you this evening?” “Well, Inever count my chickens before I see them hatched.” replied S 3 “but I think I may manage it.” “Don't let me detain you if you are wishing to strip,” I continued. N all, not at all; there is a seat there, if you will take it, and while you are smoking your cigurette Ican be making my toilet, and we can chat at the same time.” “Gladly, and if you will talk of yourself I desire no more interesting topic,” I said. Well, I don’t often talk of myself to any- body, but, if you wish it, here goes in the reg- ular book styie, I was born at As) yy, in the county of Westmoreland, on the 9th day of February, 1846, My father was a yeoman and until sixteen years of age i attended the village school. Then I commenced my carcer as a wrestler. There weresome dozen of us in the village and we took to going down into the green in the evening and practicing wrestling. Almost from the very first I felt myself an in- spired wrestler. ‘Chere was none in Aspy could throw me and in a few months’ time I isd an to wrestle in public. You see that geutieman standing in the middle of the ring there?” tes, do, anda fine old specimen of En- glishman he looks,” I answered. “Well. be trained me for really first-class work, For six weeks I was in his hands, and from the day I left him until now I have felt afraid of no man fiving.” Will you teli me of your great meetings?” “Yes, but you must remember that I'm forty-three years old now, and, having com- menced public life at the age of sixteen, you may imagine Ihave had a good number of ci here is not a single ring in dom worth calling a wrestling ring in which I have not come off victorious nor a single man claiming notoriety asa wrestler whom 1 have not thrown.” “Do you wrestle in any other ityle than the Westmoreland and Cumberland?” “I wrestle in all styles. I have thrown with- out difficulty in his own style the French champion, Beuf, at Lillie Bridge, and I have served Boulanger—not the exile, you know,” he added with a twinkle in his eye— “the same at the Alexandra palace. Then, You recollect, in three successive years—in °80, ‘81 and °82, I think it was—I carried away Sir John Astley’s belt from Lillie Bridge. Quite re- cently Brown of New Cross challenged to wrestle any comer for the championship of the world and £25 a side, the best ont of three styles, the Westmoreland and Cumberland, catch-and-catch, first man down, and catch- and-eatch two points, I accepted the challenge and threw him in the first two styles, and since then I have heard no more of Brown of New Cross.” “So I suppose you accepted this as an abso- lutely decisive result?” “No; only this spring I published a similar challenge to the world, but the fame of my con- test with Brown of New Cross seems to have stunned the wrestling fraternity for the time being; but after all ‘there is no wrestling like the Grasmere wrestling. “low is that?” I inquired. “Well, I say there is no wrestling like the Grasmere wrestling because the Grasmere Ting isu fair ring. Every man means business; that’s what i mean.” By this time George Steadman was stripped to the ekin, and what a form his was! ‘Truly, out of the many Westmoreland men I have seen, I have scen none to compare with him. , “Let me measure you around the chest: 47 inches to a decimal; now from tip to toe: 5 feet 10% inches. Now here at the scales,” and they drew is stones 3 pounds. “Good weight that,” tes; but if Iwas put to it I should take a stone off,” said George, solemnly. ‘But, you see, Ihave taken to innkeeping, and althoagh Tam of bay Saige drinkers the strictest and never walk less than six milesa day, an inn- keeper's life is not conducive to make lean.” Time was up. so inviting me over to the Wheatsheaf, hitehaven, where he wouid show me fifty-five cups, twenty belts and five gold medals, this enormously powerfully built man walked out to meet George Lowden, Just as he was entering the ring he turned back and said: “You must remember I can run aud jump as weil as wrestle. Sixteen years ago I won a bandicap quarter-mile hurdle race at the Agricultural hall, Islington, off the scratch mark, wud since then’ I have repeated the per- formance both at Manchester and Liverpool. But Lowden's waiting. Good morning.” A shake of hands, a little time in getting hold. stiff and firm grip, and Lowden lay on the ground, and amid the indescribable tumult of applause the champion aud favorite of the Grasmere ring “held the field” for 1889. Held the field, for no doubt any longer remained of the final conqueror and before three hours were over Mrs. Ridehalgh placed the champion’s silver belt around the stalwart form of George Steadman. the united king- —eer. Toothpicks and Toothpicking. Theodore Cuild in Harper's Bazar, The only toothpicks that hygiene and con- veniency admit are wooden splinters or quills, Gold or silver toothpicks are dangerous be- cause the metal may scratch or chip the enamel of the teeth, The use of the precious metals for making such a mean instrument as a tooth- pick is an example of snobbishness. An ivory toothpick 1s also objectionable because the ivory is absorbent and in the course of use becomes unclean, Use a toothpick and throw it away afterward, You do not want to carry a toothpick in your pocket unless you are tray- eling in barbarous or over-squeamish coun- tries. Here the question arise: toothpick tobe used?” The reply is: “Simp| without affectation and without obstinacy At some of the best tables at which I have had the honor of sitting in Europe I found a quill toothpick laid atthe foot of the wine glasses as being as indispensable a part of the couvert, or service, as a knife and fork, But unless I deliberately watched for a certain length of time, thereby losing the enjoyment of a part of the dinner—which, you may be sure, was not often the case—I never noticed guests using these toothpicks, And yet they did use them, certainly; but when doing so they did not hoist the white flag to call the attention gf the whole table to the operation, as those do who try to hide their faces behind their napkin, i maneuver, so common among the Americans, is at best a false prudery, worthy only of the intelligence of an ostrich. To ‘hold up your napkin so is simply making a signal, as who should say: ‘Now, look out; I'm going to pick my teeth. See how ashamed I am of the clumsy way in which I do the said picking!” Such picking of teeth as is n for com- fort oped be oe = ha — cy (rm up of na, ithout any ol our han cad the mouth, which is sine as ostentatious as the white tlag: and, above all, without any scraping, smac! wha sucking Smee The essence of table —— jes in not making remarked and in not making yourself in any way disagreeable to your neighbors, sn es Fine Paintings Bought by Women. Madame Pommory of Rheims, who offered 800,000 franca for “The Angelus,” with a view of presenting it to the state, has bought Mil- let's “Glaneuses,” now on exhibition at the ex- pss and will present it to the louvre. ‘he owner had refused an American offer of francs, Cotlier bas MR. BOWSER AGAIN. ‘Trying to Shave Himself, and a Poor Business He Made of It. From the Detroit Free Press. “Mra, Bowser, do you know how much time the average man consumes per week in getting shaved?” queried Mr. Bowser, as he entered the house the other evening with a parcel under bis arm. “I do not” “Well, I figure it at an hour anda half, to say nothing of the expense. One slso runs many risks by shaving in a public place.” “Yes,” “And I shall hereafter shave myself, I can do itin seven or eight minutes, at a cost of Jess than two cents, and I run no risk of having my throat cut by some lunatic.” “Well, [hope you'll make a success of it, but—__” “There you go! DidIever attempt any- thing you didn’t discourage?” “But you know you tried it twice and ga’ it up and threw your outfits away in fen yr “And why? “Because some one razors to cut kindling wood!” “Mr. Bowser! “At least it appeared that way tome. And I ot a lame arm and we went off on a visit, and there were several other reasons. From this time forward I shall shave myself, and I shall begin after supper.” After supper be prepared himself with three towels and 4 quart of hot water. and went up stairs to begiu operations. 1 crept softly up and took & seat on the landing just as Mr. Bow- ser bad removed coat and vest and collar and was mixing the lather, While he was souping his face I heard him grow] several times, anu af- terward ascertained that it was caused by his jabbing the brash into his mouth and eyes by mistake. About ene-half of the lather was de- — on his shirt front before he gotthrough. le was just seventeen minttes getting ready for the razor, and when he took it up I heard him mutter “This thing handles mighty awkward! Ifthat fellow has gone and sold me a left-handed razor T'll prosecute him to the last ditch!” He held it in various hang.” and when he finally got it he made a careful motion along his right cheek, To his great delight he didn’t cut his head off. On the contrary, he shaved off a whole spoonful of | lather, and I heard him chuckling: “Egad! But I'm getting there with both feet! No barber could beat that!” Mr, Bowser wears a moustache, and is very | ehprs of it. At the third or fourth scrape aloug is cheek one end of the moustache got im the way of the razor, and a share of it was carried overboard, #9 to speak, “By thunder,” gasped Mr. Bowser, as he re- garded the damage, and he carefully washed all the lather off that side to closer inspect the calamity. gation proved that dam- age was not beyond repair, and he renewed the ne I hs ; luther and went abead. freat mectings in the last twenty-seven years. | in the course of the next fifteen minutes Mr, Bowser must have removed as many as two | hairs trom bis face, and he uttered fully one hundred sighs and grunts. He tried the razor in his right hand and in his left, and in every conceivable position, and he brushed on the luther until a hoe would scarcely have scraped it of. “You see,” I heard him saying to himself, “a fellow has to fool around awhile to get confi- dence in himself. I expected it would take me about half an hour this time, but inside of a week I'll make « clean shave inside of five min- utes, There—that’s a good job.” He wet a towel and wiped the lather off his face and took a look in the glass. The result astonished him. So far ashe could see he had not removed one single beard. He had ecraj off the lather, but the beard was still there. He growled away for awhile and then mixed a fresi: lot of lather and brushed it on, and, after satisfying himself that the razor’s edge was all right by cutting a hair pulled from his head, he laid it against his chin. He gradually turned it up and began to scrape, and I heard him softly saying: “Now, then, I've = the real hang of it. I Was carrying it too flat. There's a trick——” Two things suddenly happened. He cut the left corner of his moustache off and gashed his chin at the same stroke, and the next in- stant he bounded into the hall and shouted for me. “Well, what is it?” I asked as I rose up. “Look here! I'm fatally wounded!” he cried, as he danced around the hall “Let me see. Why, it's nothing but a slight cut, Let me wash the lather off.’ It was a lively cut, and it bled freely for a quarter of an hour, during which time Mr. Bow- ser dida greatdeal of sighing an: ing and forgot about his moustache, ‘When I had —— up the cut he returned to the glass, iscovered that his moustache was lop-sided, and wheeled on me to exclaim: “Look at it! Look at that, Mrs. Bowser!” “Yes, you haggled your moustache, I'll get the shears and trim it off. Never! Keep right away from me! Mrs, Bowser, your plot Aes been y Ba ered,” “Don't be so foolish, Mr. Bowser, I told you you couldn’t sbave yourself.” “It is all us plain as day now,” he continued, as he upset the lather cup and walked through its contents: ou probably figured that I'd cut throat. You were sitting at the head of the — in ee my — rattle.” “Did I tell you to bring home that razor? Didu't I try to discourage you from shavi “aad He turned from me without a reply and I went down stairs. He came down after about half an hour, He had been , y hav- ing wept for a week. “It's too bad,” I said, breaking a long and embarrassing silence. “Oh, it is, 18 it?” be sneered in reply. bad that I'm not lying a headless corpse uy stairs and you figuring on -ay life insurance! “Well, it's no use to talk to you. Mr. Bowser.” “Nota bit, Mrs, Bowser. You had @ plan; I checkmated it. You stand revealed our true light as a would-be Borgia or worse. This is the last straw, Mrs. Bo In the morning will talk b But when Sr | came he didn't havea word tosay. I found his shaving outfit in the ide yard, where he had thrown it from the window. and the girl is now using the razor to peel potatoes, ————-ree. HOW SOME GIRLS WALK. Awkardness Due to Lack of Thought and Lack of Training. From the Kingston (N.¥.) Freeman. Why is it our young ladies do not know how to walk? Look! here comes one with her head pitched forward, her hands swinging ungrace- fally by her side, her feet scufiling the walk, and altogether presenting an appearance quite unbecoming one of America’s lovely daughters, charming in ail else, perhaps, but oh, such a gait! The next one walks with a Jerk, her feet and lower part of her body having started on a race with her head to see which will get there first. Tho consequence is for every step for- ward she comes part way back with « jerk. Her sister follows, twitching ly from side to side, rollmg from one foot to the other like a sailor in midocean, some excuse and she has not. The arms usu- ally follow, but in opposite directions, The body of the next one makes a perfectbow, back bent, head forward and feet trying to catch up. Not one with the firm, graceful » erect head, straight shoulders. to be acquired i termination to present When will deportment be easy arms —— to get “the | y ' Sam Caxcer Several years azo I was calle to sec a colored woman who hed « malignant form of cancer on her foot. The ‘SAUCER Frew worse under the proscribed treatmentand the toes and one side of the foot were at leugth eaten entirely sway. The patient could not have survived much longer. but I commenced the use of Swift's Spe cific and it cured ber sound and well, That wos three yeere age, and there has been po return of the disease. 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